The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-12-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

"a Maine man who doesn't want
be bothered with baggage when he go.
travelling takes only an extra collar
and carries that under the sweatban
Of his hat.
Cashiers Wife (reading-"The ad
vantages Of paper are in its lack Z
bulk A man could easily carry $40,
100000 If in $4,000 bills" Cashie
(meditatively)-"Well, well, 1 neve
thought Of ii. Omaha World.
When lightning struck the barn O
James Smith. of Marion, Ind, he wa
standing between his two horses will
three pigs nosing around their feet. A,
the lash all the animals dropped dead,
while Smith was entirely unframed.
An odd time-piece is shown in .
Philadelphia window. The front OF
the clock is large, round waiter. The
hours are marked on dozen oyster
shells. A small plate, garnished with
slices OF lemon. conceals the works, and
the hands are knife and fork.
Tom Webb. living near MillvilIe.
CAL. has an apple tree ON which he
grated the Duchess pear about two
years ago. The bud has done better
than the apple. but both bear fruit.
each after its kind. The strange part
OF it is that pears and apples grow to-
gether on the same twig.
IA new process has been discovered
by which the most delicate patterns.
even OF lace work, can be produced in
iron BY casting the metal on the fabric
after the fabric has been carbonizcd.
Molten iron can be run on the most
delicate fiber in carbonized state with
out injuring or affecting it.
Settling Accounts: DELINQUENT sub
scriber Ito editor)-"Good morning.
Mr.. Shears. I want to pay YOU"
Editor-"Ah, thanks. James, make
out bill for Mr.. Sh-" DELINQUENT
Subscriber-"to pay you a compliment
on your last weeks issue. 1t was an
admirable number. "-Drakc's Trar-
eilcrs' Maqazine.
Bridal parties who visit Washington
are disappointed because they can not
ascend to the top of the Washington
monument Congress made no appro-
priation for furnishing steam power to
run the elevator, and unless a special
measure is introduced at the ne It ses-
sion the top of the shaft will be inac-
cessible during another fiscal year.
"A Cleveland turfman owns a horse
that can both trot and pace mile in
fast time. As PAGER the animal has a
record OF 2:203, which he made last
year. Early last spring his owner
changed him into trotter. and he has
made splendid record this season. |
The owner says he can. with twenty |
minutes notice. change his horse from |
PAGER into a trottcr, or vice versa.
1t was good New England deacon
who said the other night in PRAYER
meeting. I'VE thank thee, Lord, for
this spark of grace; and ask thee to
water it. And it was New England
parson who announced to his congrega-
ton on recent Sunday, "You will be
sorry to hear that the little church Mt
Joncsville is once moro tossed upon the
waves. sheep without shepherd"
"A tract of 1855 acres, embracing
Lake and part of Big Rock
Lake, in Herkimer County, has been
bought for $50, 600. and club probably
will be organized with membership Of
about twenty to own the property. VIII
nurt Lake is 1880 feet above the level
II the sea, is fed by springs, and is
counted one of the best lakes in the
Adirondack region for fly fishing for
'pecklcd trout-M Y. Sun.
-One Of the latest attempts to bar-
Tess the forces of nature for the service
II men is the adaptation of a windmill
or the turning of a dynamo, the cleo
richly thus obtained being stored in
uitable batteries, and afterward used
n lighting beacons for the benefit of
he maritime interests. There is a
tation Of this kind near the mouth Of
he Seine. and considerable success has ]
zen obtained. IL
However big Toronto may become, I
avs the Globe, OF that city. she will 7
ever altogether lose certain air of {
cling an overgrown village unless her b
itizens more generally develop sense l
I the beautiful and the becoming in q
he treatment Of their own property.
y such city of schools and churches
here ought to be sweetness and light" s
nough to make such a barbaric de- p
'rmity as a shortcut across boule- e
ard an unknown thing. $
George Ambrose. who lives on the q
aptain Okeson farm. a couple of miles v
ast Of Lexington, Mich. is the owner q
a turkey hen that has brood of half a
rown turkeys, among which is a young p
rairie chicken of apparently the same v
&c Is its companions. Whether the b